Karen Karnes

Born: 1925, New York, New York

Martha Grover is known for wheel-thrown and altered and/or slab-built porcelain tableware and other functional pottery. Grover?s decorative technique includes the use of pastel to white glazes that typically feature iron-rich spatters ...
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Grover?s work is highly altered in the wet stage. Her altering process uses ribs, water, and sponges in the reshaping process for curves in vessel walls. Signature forms include stand-alone and wall mounted perfume bottles, vases, tulipieres, boxes, and baskets.

Apprenticeships & Residencies

1949

1950

Independent Study, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

1952

1954

Potter in Residence, Black Mountain College, Asheville, North Carolina

Primary Work Experience

1954

1979

Gate Hill Cooperative, Stony Point, New York

1967

Faculty, Penland School of Craft, Penland, North Carolina

Other

Public Collections

Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University, Alfred, New York

American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

Arizona State University Art Museum, Pheonix, Arizona

Aukland Museum, Aukland, New Zealand

Bemidji State University Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota

Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio

Cranbrook Academy Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire

Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, Delaware

Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LAMCA), Los Angeles, California

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Museum of World Folk Art, La Jolla, California

Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisonsin

Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville, North Carolina

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri

Topeka Public Library, Topeka, Kansas

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Weisman Art Museum, University of Minesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas

Bibliography

Boylen, Michael. "A Karen Karnes Workshop." Ceramics Monthly, 1981.

Clark, Garth, and Margie Hughto. A Century of Ceramics in the United States 1878-1978. New York, NY: E.P. Dutton, 1979.

Dietz, Paula. "American Pottery." New York Times Home Design, April 13, 1986

Hynes, Reggie. "Karen Karnes Workshop." Ceramic Review, May/ June 1982.

____________. "Karen Karnes Retrospective." Ceramics Monthly, March 1978.

____________. "Karen Karnes," Ceramic Review, March/April 1978.

Levin, Elaine. The History of American Ceramics From Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms, 1607 to the Present. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998.

Lynn, Martha Drexler. Clay Today Contemporary Ceramists and Their Work A Catalogue of the Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Collection at the Los Angeles County Art Museum. Los Angeles, CA: Chronicle Books, 1990.

Rubin, Michael. "Karen Karnes." Ceramics Monthly, April 1986.

Shapiro, Mark ed. Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Silberman, Robert. “Modernism As It Was Meant To Be.” American Craft, April/May 2011.

Smith, Dido. "Karen Karnes.” Craft Horizons, May/June 1958.

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